Hmmm...I haven't seen Beckett yet, but I read the script a while back and was bowled over. Can see how both your reaction and Chris' are quite possible, and could probably comfortably co-exist. Which is partially why I was so impressed by the piece, which is so far from the grating literalism of so much new Australian theatre.

Quite, Born Dancin' - I usually take it as a good sign when a work provokes such differing responses!

Funnily enough, at the last edit, before hitting the publish button, I deleted a remark about Dykstra looking like a rabbit in the headlights. A bit cruel, I thought. But he looked rattled at the performance I saw.

There was only one person laughing in the entire theatre -- a persistent chuckler who found the lighting changes amusing -- and everyone else was nonplussed.

At the very least, Alison, we can agree on this: The slightest doubt, the smallest hesitation, and the entire performance would collapse into embarrassment...

It did.

P.S. I hope I can make it to your Sunday session. I've just written a piece for the Fin Review about "relative dimension in space"... about the sculptures of James Angus, not Doctor Who! He's the dude who put a full-blown hot air balloon inside a sail of the Opera House... upside down.